Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter joined Fred Again.., Phantasy Sound label head Erol Alkan, and Ed Banger Records founder Pedro Winter for a shock B2B DJ set at Paris’ Centre Pompidou late final night time (Saturday, October 25). The event was a twentieth anniversary celebration for the French report label Because Music. For his first DJ set in 16 years, Bangalter dropped Daft Punk tracks together with “Rollin’ & Scratchin’,” “Digital Love,” and “Contact,” plus “Galvanise” by the Chemical Brothers and a part of Jonny Greenwood’s One Battle After Another score. Try footage and pictures of the occasion beneath.
“Thomas informed me on this raise on the way in which right down to the present that the primary time he fell in love with digital music was on this constructing in 1992,” Fred Once more.. wrote on Instagram this morning. “He additionally informed me hasn’t performed a correct set with out the masks on for twenty-four years. I didn’t know what to say to both of these issues and I nonetheless don’t. All I mentioned to him on the finish is that I hope it isn’t 24 years til the following.”
Bangalter made his final reside look—alongside along with his Daft Punk counterpart Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo—in the course of the Weeknd’s performance on the 2017 Grammy Awards. He shared the solo album Mythologies in 2023. Daft Punk joined Fortnite earlier this yr, including songs from their catalog and their iconic TB3 and GM08 helmets to the online game.
Examine Daft Punk’s 1997 single “Across the World” in “The 30 Best House Tracks of the ’90s.”
